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  1. Writing Contests, Grants & Awards May/June 2024

    Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we've published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests ...

  2. The Ultimate List of Writing Contests in 2024 • Win Cash Prizes!

    Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Script Writing, Short Story, and Novella. Geminga is a neutron star so small it was difficult to detect. With Geminga: $500 for Tiny Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, or Art, Sunspot Lit honors the power of the small. No restrictions on theme or category.

  3. 40 Free Writing Contests: Competitions With Cash Prizes

    Open to anyone over 18 anywhere in the world, your real or fictional short story for this competition must be either in English or Spanish and "conceived from the objective of scientific dissemination to primary school" to qualify for the cash prizes: £150, £100 and £50. Deadline: April each year.

  4. The Big List of UK Writing Competitions & Awards 2024 (Part 2) + Link

    Entry fee: free. Deadline: estimated 19th July 2024. Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition. This competition is open to original, unpublished and unbroadcasted short stories of up to 3,000 words. The story can be on any subject, in any style, by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world.

  5. Best Short Story Writing Contests in 2024

    Genres: Essay, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Short Story. Bacopa Literary Review's 2024 contest is open from March 4 through April 4, with $200 Prize and $100 Honorable Mention in each of six categories: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Free Verse Poetry, Formal Poetry, and Visual Poetry.

  6. Best Essay Writing Contests in 2024

    Genres: Essay. The Berggruen Prize Essay Competition, in the amount of $25,000 USD for the English and Chinese language category respectively, is given annually to stimulate new thinking and innovative concepts while embracing cross-cultural perspectives across fields, disciplines, and geographies.

  7. The Best Writing Contests for Writers

    The Roswell Award is an annual science fiction contest with a $500 prize, co-presented by Sci-Fest L.A. and the Light Bringer Project. This is a great option if you like using your writing to unite the worlds of science and art. Prize: $500 for first place, $250 for second place, and $100 for third place.

  8. Dymocks Beyond Words

    Dymocks Beyond Words is Back for 2024! Having had such a successful 2023 we are back with more categories and the biggest prize pool to date with over $20,000 in prizes to be given! So get ready to start writing! Entries open on the 1st of March and close on the 31st of May. Winners will be announced at the Awards Night on 11 October 2024 in ...

  9. The Poets & Writers Guide to Writing Contests

    Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we've published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests ...

  10. Celebration Day writing competition

    The third annual Celebration Day will be held on Bank Holiday Monday 27th May 2024. It is a day to remember the generations of people who created our society and celebrate how they overcame hardship and showed courage, inspiring us. The deadline for our Celebration Day writing competition will be before Celebration Day, so students and teachers ...

  11. 2024 Creative Writing Awards Applications Are Now Open!

    Applicants to the new award will be asked to answer the prompt, "Tell us about one banned book that changed your life and why.". The 2024 competition launches on October 16, 2023, and closes on January 16, 2024—or when 1,000 applications have been submitted. Current high school seniors who attend public schools in the United States ...

  12. The Short Story Challenge

    The 18th Annual Short Story Challenge is a creative writing competition open to writers around the world. There are four rounds of competition. In the 1st Round, beginning on January 19th, writers are placed randomly in groups and are assigned a genre, subject, and character assignment. Writers have eight days to write an original story no ...

  13. Writing Battle

    Writing Battle MVW 2023 (tie) 2023 Nanofiction Winner. Trey Dowell and Nikki Marks each won $500 cash by earning the most points across the Battles in 2023. Writers accumulate points depending on how well their stories do in each Battle. We sum up each writer's best three Battles in a Calendar year.

  14. 7 Free and Regular Writing Competitions to Test Your Creative Writing

    The Writing Quarter Competition is a free, monthly run competition that asks writers to complete a short story (open theme) of 1,00-3,000 words by the last day of each month.

  15. Mastering Writing Competitions: Tips from a Two-Time Winner

    12 Insider Tips to Ace a Writing Competition. 1. Make a list of the requirements. This first one may sound obvious, but it's easy to accidentally stray from the guidelines set by the competition. Some things to bear in mind include: Minimum and/or maximum word count.

  16. Time To Write

    The competitionThe title of the competition is ISEB Time to Write. It is a creative writing competition for school pupils aged 7-16.3. How to enter3.1 The competition will run from 00:00 on 15 February 2024 (the "Opening Date") to 23:59 on 26 April 2024 (the "Closing Date") inclusive.3.2 All competition entries must be received by the Promoter ...

  17. English Writers Collective Creative Writing Competition

    The English Writers Collective of Sri Lanka (EWC) invites entries for their annual literary competition of creative prose writing and poetry. Literary articles, reviews, short stories of up to 2500 words and poems of 32 lines or less, are welcome. Two prose entries and not more than five poems could be submitted by a competitor.

  18. The Big List of Student Writing Contests for 2023-2024

    Students in 11th grade can submit their poetry. Contest details will be published this fall. 9. The New York Times Tiny Memoir Contest. This contest is also a wonderful writing challenge, and the New York Times includes lots of resources and models for students to be able to do their best work.

  19. Creative Writing Competition » The English Council Pte. Ltd

    Schadenfreude. Submit your original story to [email protected] by 5th December 2020 Saturday, 19th December 2020, 6.00pm . PRIZES. 1st Prize (Overall Winner): Apple iPad. 2nd Place Winner (Age Group - 10 to 14 Years Old): $400 TEC Gift Card. 2nd Place Winner (Age Group - 15 to 19 Years Old): $400 TEC Gift Card.

  20. About BCWC ← Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition

    BCWC judges can be teachers, writers, professionals in different spheres, and native English speakers. For questions regarding the Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition, please feel free to email us at [email protected]. 2023/24 competition calendar. Registration October 2 - 20, 2023. Writing days November 21 - 22, 2023.

  21. Welcome to the Purdue Online Writing Lab

    The Purdue On-Campus Writing Lab and Purdue Online Writing Lab assist clients in their development as writers—no matter what their skill level—with on-campus consultations, online participation, and community engagement. The Purdue Writing Lab serves the Purdue, West Lafayette, campus and coordinates with local literacy initiatives. The ...

  22. 1800+ Creative Writing Prompts To Inspire You Right Now

    Here's how our contest works: every Friday, we send out a newsletter containing five creative writing prompts. Each week, the story ideas center around a different theme. Authors then have one week — until the following Friday — to submit a short story based on one of our prompts. A winner is picked each week to win $250 and is highlighted ...

  23. Moscow Oblast

    Moscow Oblast ( Russian: Моско́вская о́бласть, Moskovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia. It is located in western Russia, and it completely surrounds Moscow. The oblast has no capital, and oblast officials reside in Moscow or in other cities within the oblast. [1] As of 2015, the oblast has a population of 7,231,068 ...

  24. Elektrostal

    Elektrostal. Elektrostal ( Russian: Электроста́ль) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is 58 kilometers (36 mi) east of Moscow. As of 2010, 155,196 people lived there.

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  26. Anne Frank Initiative welcomes over 250 Clear Creek Amana eighth

    Kirsten Kumpf Baele speaking in front of the group of Clear Creek Amana students. On Thursday, May 30, 2024, the Anne Frank Initiative (AFI), an International Programs affinity group, welcomed 250+ eighth graders from Clear Creek Amana (CCA) Middle School.A strong mission of the AFI is to create outreach opportunities to share Anne Frank's story, spirit, and her humanitarian message with our ...